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[nick caputo]

My last blog post that credited Bill Everett with pencils and inks on the Outlaw Kid was only half-correct. Jim Salicrup contacted Herb Trimpe and he confirmed that he pencilled the story, so I stand corrected. I still can't see any trace of Trimpe in the story, although his pencils are noticable on the cover, but Everett apparently overpowered him on the interior story.

I've update my blog post with the new information:

http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2013/02/hidden-gems-part-2-bill-everett.html 

As Joe E. Brown said in Some Like It Hot: "Nobody's perfect!"

[josemas]

Thanks for the update, Nick.

We all make mistakes and with art IDing it's sometimes easy to do.

Keep up the good work on the blog.

Best

Joe

[nick caputo]

Thanks, Joe. I still can't be 100% certain it's Trimpe pencils because sometimes artists don't always recognize their own work. Some years ago I emailed Dick Ayers and asked if he inked the cover to FF # 35. After looking at the scan he said it wasn't him. THis nagged at me, because although it had been credited to Chic Stone, it had all Ayers imprint. I risked annoying him and asked if he'd kindly check his record books. He emailed me back "You got it!" He did not recognize his own inking.

I'm not saying that Trimpe is incorrect, if he says he pencilled it I have to take his word for it, but after over 40 years its sometimes hard to tell.

Nick C.   

[profh0011]

Not quite the same thing, but I once showed Arnold Drake (by e-mail) a page by his good friend Luis Dominguez, from a Charlton book.  Arnold said, "That doesn't look anything like Luiz' work!" And he was right... except, Dominguez SIGNATURE was right there, clear, distinct, recognizable. The thing was, Charlton didn't pay much, and artists often gave them exactly what they paid for.   

Hey, Nick, if you don't mind my asking, how come you start a new thread every time you have a new blog page? At this rate, you'll have hundreds of threads going!